US1801889A - Safety razor - Google Patents

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April'21, 1931.

v. s. VENTIMIGLIA SAFETY RAZOR Filed Oct. 22, 192B ,BY HTTORNEY new Apr. 21, 1931 I. r 1,801,889 8 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE VINCENT S. VENTIMIGLIA, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSO'b'B/I v V i Application filed October 22, 1928. Serial No. 314,228.

This invention relates to a certain new and and substantially throughout said portion 2 useful improvement in safety razors parof its length, shell A is provided longituditicularly adapted for removing hairs from nally with a series of suitably spaced transwithin the nose or from other parts of the verse kerfs 7 disposed inwardly through its l body where a close shave is neither desired said apex 4 and said portion of its length 55 nor desirable. The present device may hence thereby converted to include a longitudinal be descriptively designated as a nasal safety series of spacedV-shaped teeth 8. razor, my invention having for its object the "Removably disposed longitudinally within provision of a nasal safety-razor which is of the shell A with its cutting edge 9 disposed 10 simple, inexpensive, and compact construc- 1n co-operativeprotected relation in the V- tion, which may be cheaply and eoonomicah shaped teeth 8, 1s a suitable blade B. 1y manufactured, which comprises few, read- F itting removably 1n, and providin a ily operatively assembled parts, which is con: closure for, the open rear end of shell A, is a veniently usable, and which is efiicient m the cap prov ded transversely or diametrical- 1 performance of its intended functions. 1y with a pm 10, whose ends 11-11 are pre- 65 And with the above and other objects in sented outwardly of the cap and adapted for view, my invention resides in the novel fea cooperation with the bayonet-slots 6 in detures of form, construction, arrangement, and tachably retainlng the cap C in shell-closure combination of parts hereinafter described positlon'.

and pointed out in the claims. Attached to the cap G by means of said 70 In the accompanying drawing, pin 10, 1s a PIOJGCtlIlg coiled spring 12 adapt- Figure 1 is an elevational view of a nasal ed, when the cap 0 is in shell-closure position, safety-razor embodying my invention; -to impinge against an end of blade B to Figures 2 and 3 are elevatlonal views of the yieldingly retain the same in cutting corazor, as seen from different angles and with operative relation with the teeth 8. It will 75 the blade-covering cap removed; be evident that, on removal of cap C, a blade Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of B may be removed and conveniently renewed. the razor; and Adapted to fit removably on said portion 2 Figures 5 and 6 are transverse sectional of shell A and over the teeth 8 when the views of the razor, taken approximately 011 razor is not in use, or for convenience in so the lines 5-5 and 66, Figure 1,respectively. carrying the same in a pocket, case, or the r Referring now more in detail and by ref-' like, is a tubular-cap 13.

erence characters to the drawing, which il- It is to be understood that changes in the lustrates a preferred embodiment of my inform, construction, arrangement, and comvention, the body of the razor is preferably bination of the several parts of my new razor 85 in the form of a suitably elongated hollow or may be made and substituted for those herein tubular shell A, which for a part of its length shown and described without departing from is of cylindrical contour, as at 1, and which the nature and principle of my invention.

. for the remainder 2 of its length is oppositely Having thus described my invention, whati flattened, as at 3, 3, through approximately I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patentao half of its circumferential area. Shell ,A is is:

thusthrough part of its length of V-shape in 1. A nasal safety razor including, in comsection, as it may be described, the apex 4 bination, a tubular open-end shell, a blade thereof beingpresented outwardly and exremovably fitting longitudinally within the tending longitudinally of the shell, all as shell, the shell having a longitudinal series 95. shown, the shell Abeing closed and preferof spaced V-shaped teeth for co-operative ably neatly rounded at itsforward end,as at5. relation with the cutting edge of the blade, At and opening upon the rear open end of the and means for yieldingly retaining the blade shell A, for purposes presently appearing, are removably'within the shell, saidmeans com- 50 diametrically opposite bayonet- slots 6, 6. At prising a closure-cap for the open end of 10C the shell, and a coiled spring fixed to the cap for impinging engagement with an end of the blade. 2. A nasal safety razor including, in combination, a tubularopen-end shell, a blade removably fitting longitudinally Within the shell, the shell having a longitudinal series of s aced V-shaped teeth for co-operative relation with the cutting edge of the blade, and means for yieldingly retaining the blade removably within the shell, said means comprising a closure-cap for the open end of the shell, and a coiled spring fixed to the ca for impinging engagement with an end the blade, the forward closed end-of the shell being of rounded configuration.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

VINCENT S. VENTIMIGLIA.

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